We read every one of the 129 genuine written inquiries sent to our Toronto showroom’s website forms between March 2024 and July 2026, classified them, and matched them against 16 months of search-interest data reaching our site and Toronto’s public building-permit record. This page publishes the aggregates — an original dataset on what Toronto flooring buyers actually want. Free to cite with a link.
Over 16 months (March 2025 – June 2026), queries about natural & specialty flooring — marmoleum, cork and bamboo — put 53,612 impressions in front of our site, across four non-overlapping query classes totalling 316,816 classed impressions (vinyl/laminate 133,913 · hardwood/engineered 98,755 · specialty natural 53,612 · store-near-me 30,536; brand searches excluded).
The specialty class is the growth story: monthly impressions rose from 2,009 in March 2025 to 5,547 in June 2026 — ×2.8 — with a spring-2026 surge that peaked at 6,424 in April 2026.
| Month | Natural & specialty flooring impressions |
|---|---|
| 2025-03 | 2,009 |
| 2025-04 | 2,550 |
| 2025-05 | 2,986 |
| 2025-06 | 2,979 |
| 2025-07 | 2,887 |
| 2025-08 | 3,897 |
| 2025-09 | 2,658 |
| 2025-10 | 1,979 |
| 2025-11 | 2,160 |
| 2025-12 | 2,229 |
| 2026-01 | 2,284 |
| 2026-02 | 2,598 |
| 2026-03 | 4,962 |
| 2026-04 | 6,424 |
| 2026-05 | 5,463 |
| 2026-06 | 5,547 |
One honest framing note: this class includes generic queries (“bamboo flooring”, “cork floors mississauga”) beyond Toronto — it measures natural & specialty flooring interest reaching this site, not city-only demand.
AI-assistant search volume (DataForSEO AI keyword data, Canada, retrieved Jul 21, 2026): “marmoleum” draws 96 AI searches/month and “marmoleum flooring” 29/month (June 2026). Small numbers — but they exist, which is why this page publishes its methodology and aggregates for citation.
Source: Google Search Console for tonysflooring.ca, Mar 1 2025 – Jun 30 2026. Impressions measure how often our pages appeared in Google results per query class — search interest reaching one store’s site, not market search volume.
Of the 129 genuine written inquiries we received through our website forms (March 2024 – July 2026), 81 (62.8%) were quote or estimate requests. Install-service questions came second (18, 14.0%), then repair/refinish requests (12, 9.3%), product-availability questions (10, 7.8%) and admin/hours/order-status notes (6, 4.7%). A small remainder falls below our 5-count publication floor and is not broken out.
By project type — 106 of the 129 named a floor type:
| Project type | Inquiries | Share of 129 |
|---|---|---|
| Vinyl / laminate | 39 | 30.2% |
| Carpet / area rug | 23 | 17.8% |
| Specialty natural (marmoleum/cork/bamboo) | 19 | 14.7% |
| Hardwood / engineered | 14 | 10.9% |
| Multiple types | 11 | 8.5% |
| Other / not specified | 23 | 17.8% |
The specialty-natural line matters: 19 of 129 written inquiries (14.7%) are about marmoleum, cork or bamboo. The search growth above is not just browsing — it shows up in our inbox as real project requests.
From the 115 question-flagged items, the top themes:
| Question theme | Count |
|---|---|
| Vinyl flooring installation quotes | 18 |
| Carpet replacement / installation quotes | 15 |
| Vinyl product pricing / stock | 12 |
| Hardwood quotes / refinishing | 11 |
| General unspecified quotes | 11 |
| Marmoleum quotes / info | 9 |
| Cork info / repair | 6 |
Of the 108 messages that stated a service mode, 72 (67%) asked us to supply AND install the floor. Supply-only came to 15 (13.9%), refinish/repair service 12 (11.1%), install-only 9 (8.3%). (21 of the 129 messages didn’t state a mode.)
| Service mode (stated) | Messages | Share of 108 |
|---|---|---|
| Supply + install | 72 | 67% |
| Supply only | 15 | 13.9% |
| Refinish / repair service | 12 | 11.1% |
| Install only | 9 | 8.3% |
Reading it from the counter: Toronto homeowners overwhelmingly treat flooring as one job, not two purchases. Retail-only and install-only models each serve under 14% of what people actually write in asking for.
City of Toronto open data puts recent building-permit issuance at:
| Year | Permits issued | On single-family dwellings |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 35,991 | 17,945 |
| 2024 | 35,423 | 15,850 |
| 2025 | 36,217 | 14,849 |
Wider context: CMHC publishes national housing-market data and research. Industry standards body: the National Floor Covering Association (NFCA).
Written inquiries (n=129). All 170 submissions to this site’s contact forms, March 2024 – July 2026; all 170 carried a message. OOPSpam Anti-Spam pre-filters submissions server-side before they are stored — which is why our mechanical-spam share is low. From the 170 we removed 25 of our own automated form-health tests, 9 URL-spam and 3 pattern-spam messages mechanically, then hand-reviewed the remainder and removed 4 business-solicitation messages — leaving 129 genuine homeowner inquiries. Each was classified by project type, inquiry kind and service mode; no published category count is below 5 (one sub-5 project-type category is folded into “other/not specified”). Messages are paraphrased, never quoted; no personal information is published. Service-mode shares use only the 108 messages that stated a mode.
Google reviews. Our listing shows 4.8★ across 29 Google reviews (22 with text, 7 rating-only — included, no text signal). A small corpus — we cite it as a trust signal, not a dataset.
Search interest. Google Search Console impressions for tonysflooring.ca, Mar 1 2025 – Jun 30 2026, grouped into four non-overlapping query classes; brand queries excluded. This measures interest reaching one store’s site, not Toronto-wide search volume. AI-assistant volumes from DataForSEO AI keyword data (Canada, retrieved Jul 21, 2026).
Public figures. City of Toronto Open Data building-permits datasets (cleared + active, refreshed Jul 21, 2026; distinct permits by issue year; Open Government Licence – Toronto). CMHC and NFCA appear as named links only — no figures from either are reproduced here.
What this page is not: a market-share study or a claim about all Toronto flooring buyers — it is what people wrote to one long-standing Toronto flooring store, plus verified public permit data.
Quotes. 81 of our 129 genuine written inquiries (62.8%) were quote or estimate requests, and the top question themes were vinyl installation quotes (18), carpet replacement quotes (15) and vinyl product pricing or stock (12). Vinyl/laminate was the most-named project type (39 of 129).
In our search data, yes. Monthly impressions for natural & specialty flooring queries reaching our site grew from 2,009 (March 2025) to 5,547 (June 2026) — ×2.8 — totalling 53,612 impressions over 16 months. It also shows up first-hand: 19 of our 129 written inquiries (14.7%) were about marmoleum, cork or bamboo.
Mostly, yes. Of the 108 messages that stated a service mode, 72 (67%) asked for supply and installation together; supply-only (15), refinish/repair (12) and install-only (9) split the rest.
36,217 permits, 14,849 of them on single-family dwellings — derived from the City of Toronto's cleared- and active-permits open datasets (distinct permits by issue year; the cleared dataset alone holds only closed permits, so recent years are completed with the active dataset). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto.
Yes, in small numbers: “marmoleum” drew 96 AI-assistant searches per month and “marmoleum flooring” 29 per month in Canada as of June 2026 (DataForSEO AI keyword data, retrieved July 21, 2026).
Three places: 129 genuine written inquiries to our own website forms (March 2024 – July 2026, spam- and test-filtered, hand-reviewed, aggregated with a 5-count publication floor), Google Search Console impressions for our site (March 2025 – June 2026, brand excluded), and City of Toronto open building-permit data. Messages are paraphrased and aggregated — no personal information is published.
Tell us the rooms and the floor you’re considering. We supply and install — the way 67% of our written inquiries ask for.
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